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- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 19 hours ago:
junk food vegan
I’ve seen this with my own eyes, but didn’t know there was a common name. Indeed it is possible to be slothful, fat, and practically live off of peanut-butter, all at the same time. The intent was there, but complete nutrition was not.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 20 hours ago:
Dear Microsoft CEO and C-suite people.
Push back on your investors now before it’s too late. AI features are ruining your product and its image.
A lot of companies are tied in up this AI bubble and Microsoft is not too big to fail in this regard. Your customer-base has gotten by just fine without AI and invasive screen-capture technology used to support it, for decades at this point. Most people see your product as an operating system: a product designed to support other products. They do not want more capabilities from it, and have come to rely on good support for hardware compatibility, stability updates, performance updates, and most importantly, security updates. It is the darling of OEM PC installs, and government and commercial enterprise continue to renew their site licenses because of it. These are the core features that will continue to bring value and keep people on your platform, not AI.
If you firmly believe that agentic AI is the future, make it an optional installable product or a completely distinct operating system altogether. This is strategic since it has radically different marketing needs than Windows or Windows Professional, and supports a distinct subset of your overall install base. Foisting this feature set on your existing users is doing nothing more than artificially inflate adoption numbers, and you’re risking the entire enterprise to think your investors don’t already know this. It’s not smart, it’s not even brinksmanship or a bold technology decision. It’s reckless.
- Comment on Do you think there would eventually be technology to delete/replace memories (like the *Men In Black* device). How much do you fear such technology? (like misuse by governments/criminals) 1 day ago:
Like I feel like there are hidden traumas that got wiped by someone, like… trauma that’s even worse than those that I currently remember, or I wonder if the happy memories are perhaps implanted by someone to try to cover up trauma.
This gets complicated and messy, fast. Allow me to provide some personal experience in this area.
As someone that has had trauma hidden from myself behind dissociation and denial, I’ve done a hell of a lot of work to not do that anymore. I even have some recall, which is… not great feeling, but I’m now living in the real world. One aspect of this was being triggered by awful verbal and social behavior in others, and almost immediately forgetting that it happened; bullshit would just slide off my brain like it was coated in teflon.
Let me say that having a “spotless” memory like that is hell. It’s a state where you fail to learn important red flags about situations, people, and more. This used to get me into a lot of trouble. It runs contrary to avoiding danger - survival in extreme cases - even if you have to sift through a pile of triggers to get to the truth. I won’t sit here and say that trauma is good for anyone, but there may be legitimate cases where being triggered (because of trauma) might just save your ass.
At the same time, folks will self-medicate and over-medicate with all manner of substances, in order to forget or dull their senses in the face of trauma and triggers. If there is a more humane option, it absolutely should be explored lest we continue to watch such people slowly self-destruct.
With that, I’ll opine that the best possible answer is something that can be surgically applied to specific memories that are causing more harm than good. With the careful guidance of therapists and doctors. Somehow. I have no idea how something like that would even work. Therapy and mindfulness are probably the best we’ll have for a long time to come.
- Comment on Do you think there would eventually be technology to delete/replace memories (like the *Men In Black* device). How much do you fear such technology? (like misuse by governments/criminals) 1 day ago:
I was gonna say. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of pharmaceuticals that will wipe out your short-term memory. That’s the easiest way to “hack” a brain and eliminate knowledge of the recent past, assuming the subject didn’t take a nap first. That said, the technique is nowhere near as targeted as a neuralizer (MiB device).
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 3 days ago:
I love that the fox example is probably the very bottom of the “not even remotely related to news, yet true” barrel.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 4 days ago:
“Consumers are playing fewer games, playing them for longer, and as a result, outside of a few notable exceptions, many new games are struggling to stand out and achieve the sales they may once have had, whilst the market is more volatile and the potential for any specific title less predictable as a result,”
Really, this is about buying fewer Ubisoft games.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 6 days ago:
Dear AAA game studios: Just look at Hades II.
LOOK AT IT. A good chunk of the art you see on every playthrough isn’t even animated.
I’m probably going to clear 300+ hours on this thing before I put it down, and I’ll likely tell everyone to buy it because it’s that good. Photorealism is the last thing I care about.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
I agree. FWIW, unofficially, fans are already calling it the “GabeCube” which is no less punny.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 week ago:
Is this a computer in a keyboard ? Staggering beauty.
Indeed! That’s how it was done in the 80’s.
The trend was built around keeping the cost down. That and a screen (TV) could cost as much as the whole unit and you probably already had one of those. Nowadays we don’t think twice about our laptops coming with a screen, but if I could somehow keep the screen but replace the rest, I’d welcome the price cut that comes with it.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
Why would you choose to do that?
I’m easily distracted and am usually occupied with my own thoughts. So, not hearing traffic, other people, and my general surroundings is actually stressful for me; relying on vision alone would be dangerous. I do a lot better keeping my ears open so I can sit back, muse about this or that in my head, and let any sudden sounds or irregularities in my environment catch my attention.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
This raises questions about the opportunity cost of $300/mo. It’s not a huge amount of money, but for some budgets, it might make a car payment or groceries possible. Or, if saved or invested wisely, would it tip things in favor of the 50-year term?
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 1 week ago:
IMO, it is/was an advice and self-improvement trend that, like all such trends, ends leaving a vacuum for something else. Kind of like fad diets. So yes, I think that has been largely replaced by the alpha/guru influencer thing now.
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 1 week ago:
That’s an extreme simplification, but yes, that’s the gist.
- Comment on No Way 1 week ago:
It’s also a very Paulie take on things: so close, yet so far.
IMO, peak Sopranos is Tony’s reaction to his voice while in a coma. We finally get an idea of how he really comes across after many seasons.
- Comment on The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1! 1 week ago:
The real tragedy is how stale that bread is; Subway ^™^ crust isn’t supposed to do that. Is it too late to rescue the lunchmeat and start over?
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 week ago:
Paging Mr. Munroe…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
The most important thing to keep in mind with celebrity actors is that they make a living pretending to be someone/something they’re not. And they’re damn good at it too.
Not to cast doubt on everyone in that profession. Rather, proceed with an abundance of skepticism when considering celebrity endorsements.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 week ago:
It would sit well with my conscience that I likely prevented a worse fate for exponentially more people, and prevented another person from having to make a worse choice. Which they themselves would likely only make twice as worse, and so on. I could live with that.
What I’m not sure of is how I would handle being a deicision-maker N steps down the line. Being the first guy, sure. The 16th? I dunno.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 week ago:
2^32^ is roughly four billion. We’ll need one or two more doublings to get every last person alive on the tracks.
This introduces a new wrinkle in the experiment: all the switch operators are also tied to the track. Somewhere.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 weeks ago:
It’s exactly the same game.
This is what kills me. There’s so much squandered potential in AC with this kind of thinking. Instead, Ubisoft just wants to be EA by re-selling the same game every year, but doesn’t have the sports licenses to pull it off.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 weeks ago:
After the initial couple of hours I started to feel like everything is a chore.
Exactly. I don’t know what I expected, but that was my experience as well. The game more or less told me this:
“Hey, did you enjoy the first chapter? Well guess what? We’re going to throw that at you x20 with the occasional plot beat thrown in for variety. Have fun!”
For the obvious boatload of cash poured into Odyssey’s development, I feel like half as much game done twice as well would have been a better experience. Instead, we get something that is seemingly padded for play-time, in the same way a 4th grader adds extra blank lines to hit the required page count on a book report.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 weeks ago:
Blood Dragon?
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 weeks ago:
The sheer genius of both Hades games is that dying is absolutely one of the best parts, since the hub-world is full of fun things like this.
Hypnos: My list says you got killed by a
REDACTED. What’s that even mean?A few deaths later…
Hypnos:
REDACTEDgot you again, huh. - Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a section where, if you continue to avoid the narrator’s prompts to take a specific door, it just brings you to an unfinished room - dev textures and all - while the narrator gives you grief for screwing up the game.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 weeks ago:
Classic Doom even razzes you a little bit on the difficulty selection screen, with “I’m too young to die” as the easiest one.
I don’t recall Heretic or Hexen giving you guff for quitting, but I could be wrong.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 weeks ago:
Portal and Portal 2.
GLaDOS’ constant mockery of your person, your ability to navigate tests, and general spite pretty much make both games. It all even manages to provide a lot of world-building without lore-dumping. 10/10, would get roasted again.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 2 weeks ago:
Gurpreet is your co-worker on the sister-team, over in India. He’s hard-working, a family man, and takes care of his aging parents, all in their home village over the weekend. He spends nights in Bangalore, debugging and reviewing your code while you’re asleep. His contributions to the project are pretty solid too, even though he’s only been coding for four years. His management treats him and his team like garbage, but they don’t let that stop them from showing up and doing a good job. If you ever came to visit, he’d roll out the red carpet along with his co-workers, and give you the kind of hospitality reserved for a minor god.
Gurpreet is awesome.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 2 weeks ago:
Warning: this will destroy medication if it’s left out. You may want to move your pills to the refrigerator first (after first checking the temperature - see article).
Actually, if you live in a hot climate and don’t use A/C, you should probably do that anyway.
- Comment on Go Green 2 weeks ago:
i was gonna say. Properly deep/stacked pizzas, casseroles, and calzones are the way to go here.
